anatomy

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Etymology

From French anatomie, from Latin anatomia, from Ancient Greek ἀνατομία, from ἀνατομή (anatome, “dissection”), from ἀνά (ana, “up”) + τέμνω (temnō, “I cut, incise”) (surface analysis ana- + -tomy), literally “cut up”.

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• IPA: /əˈnætəmi/, SAMPA: /@"n{t@mi/

Noun

anatomy (plural anatomies)

1. The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.
2. The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
   • Dryden

   Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy.

   • Animal anatomy is also called zomy or zootomy; vegetable anatomy, phytotomy; and human anatomy, anthropotomy.

   Comparative anatomy compares the structure of different kinds and classes of animals.

3. A treatise or book on anatomy.
4. The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.
5. (colloquial) The form of an individual, particularly a person, used in a tongue in cheek manner, as might be a term used by a medical professional, but in a markedly a less formal context, in which a touch of irony becomes apparent.

   "I went to the Venice beach body building competition and noticed the competitor from Athen, and boy oh boy lemme tell ya, that's what a call classic Greek anatomy."

6. (archaic) A skeleton, or dead body.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 68:

     So did the Ægyptians, who in the middest of their banquetings, and in the full of their greatest cheere, caused the anatomie of a dead man to be brought before them, as a memorandum and warning to their guests.

Derived terms

• comparative anatomy
• gross anatomy

Translations

art of studying the different parts of any organized body

Arabic: تشريح (ar) (tashriiH) m. Armenian: անատոմիա (hy) (anatomia), կազմախոսություն (hy) (kazmaxosut’yun) Basque: anatomia (eu) Bosnian: anatomia (bs) f. Catalan: anatomia (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 解剖學 (zh), 解剖学 (zh) (jiěpōuxué) (2), 解剖 (zh) (jiěpōu) (1) Croatian: anatomija (hr) f. Czech: anatomie (cs) f. Dutch: anatomie (nl) Esperanto: anatomio (eo) Estonian: anatoomia (et) Finnish: anatomia (fi) French: anatomie (fr) f. German: Anatomie (de) f. Greek: ανατομία (el) (anatomía) f. Hungarian: anatómia (hu) Italian: anatomia (it) f.

Japanese: 解剖学 (ja) (かいぼうがく, kaibōgaku) (2), 解剖 (ja) (かいぼう, kaibō) (1) Korean: 해부학 (ko) (haebuhak) (解剖學 (ko)) (2), 해부 (ko) (haebu) (解剖 (ko)) (1) Latin: anatomia (la) f. Lithuanian: anatomija (lt) f. Malay: anatomi (ms), kaji bina tubuh (ms) Novial: anatomia Persian: کالبدشناسی (kalbod-shenasi), آناتومی (fa) Polish: anatomia (pl) f. Portuguese: anatomia (pt) f. Romanian: anatomie (ro) f. Russian: анатомирование (ru) (anatomirovánije) (1), анатомия (ru) (anatómija) f. (2) Samogitian: anatuomėjė f. Spanish: anatomía (es) f. Swedish: anatomi (sv) c. Tagalog: anatomiya (tl) Turkish: anatomi, yapıbilim Vietnamese: giải phẫu học (vi) (解剖學 (vi)) (2) Volapük: naatom (vo)

See also

• phytotomy
• zootomy